I've been installing gentoo on my laptop and while waiting for something to compile I was playing with various wm's on my Madriva/Mandrake 2005 box to see what I fancied installed on my gentoo laptop.

Anyway, I had fvwm, fvwm2 and enlightenment on there, which i subsequently removed to just leave kde and icewm to make sure I don't confuse all the non-linux fans who I force to use linux who have to use this PC...

it now seems however that i've lost various key parts of the operating system...

rpmdrake/the whole "configure your computer" section has vanished, and doing a urpmi. whatever says urpmi isn't a valid command...

it also seems to have swallowed firefox, but that isn't as pressing as I still have Konqueror...

and advice/help would be much appreciated!!!

Thanks

Do the /var/log/urpmi.log files show up anything useful about what packages were removed?

You need to do,

Thanks for the replies.

/var/log/urpmi.log is 0 bytes

and I was about to say doing urpmi gave command does not exist or some such, but then I realised I was being stupid and not running as root...

I have my control centre back.

Thanks guys...hopefully it will actually work for updating/ installing software!!